[11993] in Athena Bugs
HostInfo.exe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Moskowitz)
Thu Apr 28 08:08:17 1994
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 08:08:04 -0500
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: RGMoskowitz-3@clis.chrysler.com (Robert Moskowitz)
Brian Meek from Novell told me about Hostinfo.exe, so I grabbed it to try out.
for a query on addc.cldc.chrysler.com it returned:
Desired host: addc.cldc.chrysler.com
Official name: dvdc.cldc.chrysler.com
Host address: 197.11.11.43
Host address: 197.11.11.109
Host info: IBM/MVS-TCP 2.2.1
But if I TELNET to our nameserver (a SUN Solaris 2.2 system) and use
NSLOOKUP with type=any I get:
> set type=any
> addc.cldc.chrysler.com
Server: cldnspr1.cldc.chrysler.com
Address: 129.9.242.159
addc.cldc.chrysler.com canonical name = dvdc.cldc.chrysler.com
> dvdc.cldc.chrysler.com
Server: cldnspr1.cldc.chrysler.com
Address: 129.9.242.159
dvdc.cldc.chrysler.com internet address = 197.11.11.43
dvdc.cldc.chrysler.com internet address = 197.11.11.109
dvdc.cldc.chrysler.com CPU = IBM OS = MVS-TCP 2.2.1
dvdc.cldc.chrysler.com text = "MIS_WKH=dvdc"
dvdc.cldc.chrysler.com text = "MIS_WKH_ALIAS=addc"
dvdc.cldc.chrysler.com text = "MIS_WKH_ALIAS=addctrm1"
dvdc.cldc.chrysler.com text = "MIS_WKH_ALIAS=addcftpa"
As you can see, you do a better job with canonical names than Solaris does,
but you don't handle text records at all!
BTW, I am behind a firewall so you are not able to access my DNS for any
testing. Sorry.
Robert Moskowitz
Chrysler Corporation
(313) 758-8212
